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D-Index
67
Citations
17132
World Ranking
1597
National Ranking
94

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Locke Rowe is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and focuses research on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, notably Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology.

Rowe has investigated a range of topics, including:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Hemiptera Insect Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

They have published multiple papers, with recent notable works including:

  • The Alignment of Natural and Sexual Selection (2021), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Transcriptome-based Phylogeny of the Semi-aquatic Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) Reveals Patterns of Lineage Expansion in a Series of New Adaptive Zones (2022), published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • The evolution of developmental thresholds and reaction norms for age and size at maturity (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extinction and the temporal distribution of macroevolutionary bursts (2020), published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate change has different predicted effects on the range shifts of two hybridizing ambush bug (Phymata, Family Reduviidae, Order Hemiptera) species (2020), published in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors of Locke Rowe include:

  • David Armisén
  • Abderrahman Khila
  • Göran Arnqvist
  • Séverine Viala
  • Elisa Hendaoui

Their research contributions have appeared in various publication venues, most frequently in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Evolution Letters

Locke Rowe has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019, noted by the Academy of Science, as well as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits

    Locke Rowe;David Houle

  • Response to Eberhard and Cordero, and Córdoba-Aguilar and Contreras-Garduño: sexual conflict and female choice

    Tracey Chapman;Goran Arnqvist;Jenny Bangham;Locke Rowe

  • Size and Timing of Metamorphosis in Complex Life Cycles: Time Constraints and Variation

    Locke Rowe;Donald Ludwig

  • Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects

    Göran Arnqvist;Locke Rowe

  • Sexual conflict and the evolutionary ecology of mating patterns: water striders as a model system

    Locke Rowe;Göran Arnqvist;Andrew Sih;James J.Krupa

  • THE EFFECTS OF PREDATION ON THE AGE AND SIZE OF MATURITY OF PREY.

    Peter A. Abrams;Locke Rowe

  • Conflicting Selection Pressures and Life History Trade-Offs

    Dolph Schluter;Trevor D. Price;Locke Rowe

  • CONNECTING THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF TRAIT‐MEDIATED INTERACTIONS

    Benjamin Bolker;Marcel Holyoak;Vlastimil Křivan;Locke Rowe

  • TIME, CONDITION, AND THE SEASONAL DECLINE OF AVIAN CLUTCH SIZE

    Locke Rowe;Donald Ludwig;Dolph Schluter

  • The costs of mating and mate choice in water striders

    Locke Rowe

  • Developmental thresholds and the evolution of reaction norms for age and size at life-history transitions.

    Troy Day;Locke Rowe

  • Life-History Strategies for Energy Gain and Predator Avoidance Under Time Constraints

    Donald Ludwig;Locke Rowe

  • Sexual conflict and arms races between the sexes: a morphological adaptation for control of mating in a female insect

    Göran Arnqvist;Locke Rowe

  • Condition-dependent sexual selection can accelerate adaptation

    Patrick D. Lorch;Stephen Proulx;Locke Rowe;Troy Day

  • Convenience polyandry in a water strider: foraging conflicts and female control of copulation frequency and guarding duration

    Locke Rowe

  • CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF MALE AND FEMALE MORPHOLOGIES IN WATER STRIDERS

    Göran Arnqvist;Locke Rowe

  • Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: females trade up

    Trevor E. Pitcher;Bryan D. Neff;F. Helen Rodd;Locke Rowe

  • The shaping of senescence in the wild.

    Paul D. Williams;Troy Day;Quinn Fletcher;Locke Rowe

  • Fitness and body size in mature odonates

    Natalia Sokolovska;Locke Rowe;Frank Johansson

  • Maintaining a behaviour polymorphism by frequency-dependent selection on a single gene

    Mark J. Fitzpatrick;Elah Feder;Locke Rowe;Marla B. Sokolowski

  • LIFE HISTORY PLASTICITY IN A DAMSELFLY: EFFECTS OF COMBINED TIME AND BIOTIC CONSTRAINTS

    Frank Johansson;Robby Stoks;Locke Rowe;Marjan De Block

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Arnqvist
Göran Arnqvist Uppsala University
F. Helen Rodd
F. Helen Rodd University of Toronto
Troy Day
Troy Day Queen's University
Aneil F. Agrawal
Aneil F. Agrawal University of Toronto
Trevor E. Pitcher
Trevor E. Pitcher University of Windsor
Russell Bonduriansky
Russell Bonduriansky University of New South Wales
David Houle
David Houle Florida State University
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Frank Johansson
Frank Johansson Uppsala University
Tracey Chapman
Tracey Chapman University of East Anglia

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